Monday, January 1, 2018

Mission accomplished?

As I said in
a previous essay I started this site because I wanted to move away from
history forums and create my own space in the internet.

Since then I
think that I have written many essays of real historical value, especially in the
field of cryptology. I am satisfied that I’ve covered in detail all the cases
that interested me, whether they dealt with general military history,
performance of weapon systems, wartime economic history or spies and
cryptology.

I did this on
my own without support from a university, think tank or government
organization.

The remaining
cases that I am going to pursue in 2018 are the following:

2). Remaining
freedom of information act cases: I have to wait for the declassification
of TICOM reports I-40 and DF-196. Once I received them I will upload them to my
Google drive and Scribd accounts but I doubt they will have any new information
not already mentioned in the other TICOM reports.

3). Files
in the US National archives: During the year I will check again with NARA’s
research department regarding the NSA files that I was unable to locate in 2017.
Specifically the TICOM report ‘Interrogation
of mr Hayashi’ and the two German reports ‘E-Bericht der NAAst 5’ for second half
1944. Unfortunately there are no guarantees that these files will be
located.

Apart from
that I’ll also keep an eye out for anything interesting like academic articles,
release of new material to the archives, new books etc. I am especially
interested in the following topics: